The annual festival takes place in the town of Ibi in Alicante, Spain on December 28, as part of celebrations related to the Day of the Innocents. In the day-long festival, participants known as the Els Enfarinats dress up in mock military clothing and stage a mock coup d'état. They redeem their authority under a blaze of fireworks, flour bombs, and eggs.

For a brief two-hour period I found myself in a warzone.

I was thrilled, scared, and exhausted at the same time. This was something far out of my comfort zone as what my shoots normally look like. I didn't have the 'luxury' of directing people. I just had to document what was evolving in front of me. My assistant Drikus was carrying my flash and tried to aim the light at the scene I was shooting, which was a very hard thing to do because the scenes changed so rapidly. The combination of the broncolor Siros 800L combined with the RFS2.2 trigger set to highspeed mode, allowed me to shoot on a wide open aperture (F2.0 - F4.0) during daylight but with a super fast shutter speed (1/3200 - 1/8000) to underexpose the ambient light and have the flash freeze the action and give it that extra little pop.

To be honest I was not sure if I even had just one good image until we were back in our hotel and I saw the images on my laptop. I hope these images give a slight glimpse of the insane chaos we entered.

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